Improvement in game apparatus



C. L. BBOWNE.

Game-Apparatus N0. 163,845. v Patentedjune1,l875..

THE GRAPHIC COJH 0T0 -LITH. 39 Ii 4] PARK PLACE, N.Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. BROWNE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,845, dated J one 1,1875; application filed October 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAS. L. BROWNE, of the city of Brooklyn, State ofNew York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Playing the Game ofQuoits, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a game apparatus for popularamusement; and consists of the shield or hub A, constructed, preferably,of wood, in which is sawed the holes B B B B and O O (J, the pegs D D D,the four quoits, like at E, the adjustable rods F F, and the mortisedholes G G.

The shield or hub is made about threefourths of an inch in thickness,and fourteen and one-half inches each way. The pegs are, respectively,two and one-half inches and five and one-half inches long, the threeshorter ones D being placed in the holes 0 O 0 when used in the parlor,and two longer ones, as D, placed in the outer holes 0 O, to pin theshield or hub to the sward when used on the lawn. The quoits, four innumber, are made circular in shapesay five inches in diameterwith holein the center, and, preferably, of leather, with an inner lining ofstout cotton drilling or other suitable material, and filled with sand.

The game is played by placing the shield or hub flat on the flooragainst the wall of the parlor or hall, after adjusting into the holes GG the short rods F F, (which are designed to remove the shield or hub ashort distance from the wall,) or on any selected place on the lawn, bypinning it to the sward with the long pins D D. The short rods F F willnot be used when the game is played on the lawn.

The players stand fifteen or twenty feet from the shield or hub, andstrive to pitch the quoits into the holes B B B B, or over the pegs O OO, scoring such number ofpoints as prescribed therefor by the rules ofthis new game.

I am aware of iron quoits having been used on quoit-grounds, but of nonein combination or construction such as described herein, for use in theparlor or on the lawn.

I claim as my invention 1. The perforated shield or hub A, in com- 1bination with the adjustable pegs D D and rods F, substantially asdescribed.

2. The quoits E, composed of hollow rings of leather or equivalentmaterial, and filled with sand or other stuffin g, as and for thepurpose set forth.

OHAS. L. BROWN E. Witnesses:

WM. F. BROWNE, MYRON E. TANNER.

